Word: enlistment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once a year Austrian recruiting offices open, vacancies in the Austrian Army are filled. Under the Treaty of St. Germain each recruit must enlist for twelve long years...
...That the German Army or Reichswehr, now consisting of 100,000 picked volunteers who must enlist for not less than twelve years, be disbanded and replaced by a conscript army similar to that of France...
...trouble was, Captain Kawrahito found out when he reached the bandit camp, that Mrs. Pawley's kidnappers considered themselves unemployed and wanted steady jobs. As the first condition of ransom they demanded permission to enlist in the new Manchukuo Gendarmery. Second they demanded that the cash part of the ransom be paid in Chinese silver dollars, not in Japanese paper...
...century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist in the War. When Kathleen tells her foster-father the name of her admirer-Kenneth Wayne-the whole story comes out. Kenneth Wayne's father is the man who jealously murdered John Carteret's fiancee on her wedding day. As though this were not enough of a handicap...
Tyler Peck was no ordinary Hoosier farmer. Hot-headed Kentuckian, he had had to come home from college to work on the farm when his older brothers went off to fight for the North. Tyler had itched to enlist, but on the Confederate side. As a youthful revenge on his family for not letting him go to War he married the daughter of a no-account neighbor, emigrated to Indiana to his Uncle Lafe's farm. There he worked with erratic energy as husband & husbandman. Crops & children came, but Tyler wanted wilder oats. At the news of Lee's surrender...